The specific object of Hudson’s ire was department’s massive new headquarters complex in southeast Washington, the biggest federal construction project since the Pentagon. As the Washington Timesreported Sunday, the project–featuring amenities like eco-friendly “rainwater toilets” and sustainable Brazilian hardwood decking–is running at least a decade late and over a billion dollars short.

But the larger point applies to the department itself and the nebulous, all-encompassing rubric under which it’s organized. “Homeland Security” is a mess; “stop digging.”

“We should finish what we started,” Johnson countered, “the morale of DHS, unity of the mission, that emphasis would go a long way if we could get to a headquarters.”